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Boko Haram denies ceasefire with government

July 14, 2013 : Agency Reporter

Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau | credits: saharareporters.com

The leader of the Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram denied that it entered into a ceasefire agreement with the government and endorsed an attack last week on a school in northeast Yobe state.

Bloomberg reports that Abubakar Shekau, in a video message sent to reporters on Saturday, denied claims by the Minister of Special Duties Kabiru Turaki this week that a ceasefire was reached on July 8 after talks with the group’s deputy leader, Mohammed Marwan.

“Let me assure you that we will not enter into any truce with these infidels,” Shekau said. “We will not enter into any truce with the Nigerian government.”

Boko Haram, whose name means “western education is a sin” in the Hausa language, has killed thousands of people in gun and bomb attacks since 2009 in the mainly Muslim North and Abuja in its campaign to establish an Islamic state in Africa’s largest oil producer. Nigeria’s more than 160 million people are roughly split between Christians, predominant in the south, and Muslims, mostly in the north.

The purported cease-fire came in effect two days after 20 students and a teacher were killed in an attack on a secondary school in the northeastern state of Yobe. Eli Lazarus, a spokesman for the joint military and police task force in Yobe, said the attack was probably carried out by Boko Haram.

“We believe in the massacre inflicted on the secondary school in Mamudo and Damaturu and other schools; we earlier warned that we are going to burn all schools,” Shekau said. “They are schools purposely built to fight Islam.”

While Boko Haram doesn’t attack “children and young girls or old women,” he said, “Teachers that teach Western education, we are supposed to kill them in the presence of their students.

The military began an air and ground offensive against Boko Haram on May 16, two days after President Goodluck Jonathan imposed emergency rule in the northeastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa to step up the fight against the Islamist militants. The insurgents were taking over parts of Borno state, according to Jonathan.

IS THIS fool a spirit?powerful king pins must be shielding him..woe to him..that great day of his apprehension..he will cry like a baby for all the bloodshed in his hands

osikamkpo

my brother..he must be feeding on leaves inside thick forests in borno.he is a devil himself.

kamgbe

blood sucking jihadist…beast of the north

tinto

only a crazy person will grant the foot armies amnesty..the north will soon vanish.

Ölufemi

The Fed Govt does not seem to see and really understand how they are toying with the safety of lives in this country. First BH boldly stated they should be the ones granting amnesty to the the nigerian people. And now this? And yet this same clueless politicians do not seem to be able to read the handwriting on the wall that a war as already been declared against the people of Nigeria and that our unity and peace is already threatened. An all out military operation should be the only language now, till they(BH) are ready to plead for mercy, surrender and surrender their weapons. This group and its members, supporters or ANYONE associated with it should be blacklisted and declared enemies of the state, and should be made to face the death.

Omo Naija, UK

And this Oloriburuku and cursed Shekau wears clothe made from western machines, carries gun made from western countries. This kind of devil should not be allow to live.

why is punch blocking comments

All attempts to bring a fake peace during Ramadan has been exposed. That Minister should be made to look for a new job. Everybody knew the ceasefire was a big gasbag story. JTF you have your marching orders.

Peter2000

El realista

Damn straight! The FG lacks credibility. Lying to the Public is a terrible thing to do. Kudos to JTF.

The_Rising_Sun

Nigeria is a charade, its not a country in the realms of reality.

JONNY

NIGERIA IS THE ONLY COUNTRY WHERE THE GOVERNMENT TRIES TO MAKE PESCE WITH PEOPLE WHO DONT WANT PEACE.

omoyooba

abi o

Lord Chency

U will soon be caught & u wil eat up all ur flesh before u will be killed. Product of bad parental upbringing

Abubakar Sani

Shekau, Allah ya tsine maka albarka. Son of a bitch

Abubakar Sani

One thing I know for sure is, no human being on earth can stop us from pursuing any form of education be it western or whatever name you give it. Whether you accept ceasefire or not the fact remain that you will not suceed in propagating this your fake ideology that legalized killing, robbery, kidnapping…

confusion247

This government have made itself a laughing stock in the congregation of matured minds. With this revelations from boko haram, the said minister should have been in the list of unemployed Nigerians, but that won’t happen because Jonathan’s administration cares not about reputation and integrity. Very shameful that Jonathan’s lead government is begging terrorist, murderers and jihadist for a ceasefire and dialogue. The shameless administration went further to offer amnesty to mass murderers. tufiakwa.

Yankee

The so called committee on dialogue is only fooling Nigerians to believe that they are working.How could you dialogue with set of individuals that made their course known right from genesis.(kill all the infidels and establish an Islamic state)And went as far as demonstrating what they stand for even in the very face of the committee.FG keep romancing with terrorists and playing with lives of innocent citizens in the name of politics.Terrorists don’t deserve to live,waste them all until there is none,no mercy,dont please any group at the detriment of the lives of our people.Just wait a minute,i still duff my cap for the entity called “AMERICA”,a country of no non sense.God bless America.

OJO

Lets call this blood sucking demons for who they are; wicked and hard hearted murderers. Many northerners have suffered from their hands. The children killed, are they not northerners. God will visit the north and rid us all of the wicked bloodthirsty villians

Fire

Don’t you think the ceasefire announcement by the FG is to destabilize BH and make its members think there is a ceasefire to prevent the from carrying attacks? Use your head.

Mike

I watch crime detective programs a lot and have seen many times when police openly lie to the public that a serial killer is dead just to lure him out. It really might be a strategy.

Muyiwa

Nigerians are not that sincere.

Gbade

In as much GEJ is looking for the supports of the North for 2015 elections, politics will continue to be played with people’s life. Our politicians are ready to sacrifice anything including people’s life for winning elections.
If not, I think GEJ ought not to negotiate with terrorists.

Adekunle Onifade

Stupid people, are the gadgets being used to perpetuate various attacks on Nigerians not products of Western Education which you are condemning -adekunle Onifade

loko

U mean despite the fact that RAMADAN is ON and this IDIOT still has mouth to talk.
So what kind of RELIGION is this for God sake….At the end of d day he said cus of ISLAM …Religion of peace in the AIR,lol

always islam……shiooooooooooo

Jahjahbless

Islam is a religious violent sect. Christainity is a way of life. Go figure.

elochris

i can see that allah is thirsty of human blood again ,why not performed ritual with goat or pig blood to allah when he is thirsty of blood.or allmajeri people;s blood cos they are call destitute and liabilities to nigerian wao this allah must be crazy then,for human blood sucking and not the blood of responsible ones,after eating pot of food in the morning and evening then they go say na fasting well is not their fault ,the faults goes to yorubas people cos theyu bare cameleon i hope they also are enjoying all this too

omoyooba

wetin concern Yoobas inside this now?

Point Blank

They are just using this amnesty thing to get money. Nigerians should be told how much has been spent so far on this seize fire thing then you will understand what I am talking about. This malam is just using this BH thing to raise fund for his next political move

Cikere Donald

I TOLD YOU YESTERDAY THAT THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOKO HARAM AMNESTY IS NOT SURE OF WHAT HE WAS TALKING.HE SAID THERE IS CEASE FIRE. WHAT DO YOU READ AND HEAR TODAY FROM THE DEMON CALLED THE LEADER OF BOKO HAQRAM . I WATCHED HIM ON TV YESTERDAY WHEN HE SAID THEY ARE PREPARED TO KILL MORE SCHOOL CHILDREN BECAUSE THEY ARE STUDYING WESTERN EDUCATION. WHAT A DEMON IN THE NORTHERN NIGERIA. THE WHOLE WESTERN WORLD SHOULD JOIN HANDS IN FINDING AND DO HIM WHAT WAS DONE TO BIN LADIN.

Akeula Taiwo

By God’s Grace, they shall all tracked down and made to face the justice for all the atrocities that they have committed against humanity. God sees everything. Nothing is hidden from Him. He knows their hidden places. He shall expose them soonest.

johny m

He should start by killing his own children! lslam is an Arabic religion and hence foreign to Africans just like christianity.The fool thinks Arabs will fund him for propagating their evil religion,shame on you,bastard.

Malomo Alomo

One must commend the Islamic god allah for allowing his
follower to be very free and licentious, the Islamic god is known to be
notorious for global murder, a hurting hater of education and an opposer of
Jesus and Christianity, he gave freedom to his followers to commit crime, marry
more wives, kill maim and come to repent of all sins with Fasting (Rahmadan)
after which they are allowed to return to their old evil ways. Most of his
followers are the ones championing the street urchins’ trade in Lagos (Area
Boys) extorting money and lazying around, they sing the “orobokibo” songs using
dirty languages that allows for moral
decay, allah does not frown at these, he offers them fasting and even makes the
fasting very mild by allowing them to eat in the morning and be “Bellefool”
before embarking on an announced fast. This allah is so kind to his followers. He even commands them to kill his creatures
because he is to weak to met out judgment to offenders. Shekarau is a true
follower of this allah

Unlike the Christian Jesus (son of God) he forbids evil offers his
salvation to the penitent , he does not allow the Christian to marry more than
one wife, he had no record of sin and told all who would follow him to run from
evil

Who will you follow?

Proudly Nigerian

If you can go this length, you are probably worse than a boko haram member. Your write up portrays you as a miscreant. You should have reacted to the news headline intelligently rather than the hasty generalization in your comment. We need people whose comments will bring peace to the land, not religious bigots. Christians or Muslims, south or north, we are Nigerians.

Ajayi olupona

If Nigerians make another mistake by giving this heartless govern 4 more years , we should all be ready for more weeping ! This is because when they eventually vacate office by 2019 , Asari Dokubo , Kuku & co would certainly return to their old ways and infact would do worst than bokoharam !

nerry Osuka-Raymonds

hey, Proudly Nigerian…..i share your view on this….people to just mind what they say!

Biola

You’re such an Idiot, Just listen to yourself and realize the nonsense you’re saying out of your usefulness mouth. Where in the Quran said what Boko Haram members are doing is right? Mind you, the only religions scripture which says man should marry only 1 is the glorious Quran and there is criteria to follow if a man is to involved in polygamy. There is no single verse in the bible where it is mentioned all Christians should marry only 1, it only gave the exception to Prophets. There are so many messengers in the bible who even involved in polygamy, so if you don’t know anything about the scripture you’re following, you better shut your dirty mouth and don’t even talk about the Quran which you knows nothing about.

concerned citizen

You are the idiot. Why? For insulting people that do not direct their comments to you..Why don’t you just comment and shut your trap up..Typical Nigeria..ewu.

Akeula Taiwo

So, you saw nothing wrong in what Malomo blasphemously uttered on this forum, but you jumped into attacking someone who tried to correct the disgusting speech of your brethren? Why are you then so ill-mannered and uncautious? What makes you different from the BH then? You can’t give what you don’t have. You have showed no manners but only aggressively uncultured in your reply. Why are you supporting an act of indecency? Is that Christ-like?

Israel

Your head is upside down, when you are writing nonsense about what Bible says about our Lord Jesus, you are not blaspheming but when someone post the exact and undeniable truth about your evil and wicked religion and Muhammad, you will say that person is blaspheming: NOTHING LIKE BLASPHEME, it is their opinion, the only blasphemy known to the TRUE AND LIVING GOD is a sin against the Holy Spirit and He does not need his creatures to fight for him. AWAY WITH THIS EVIL CALLED ISLAM AMD MUSLIMS.

john muketha

Why cant muslims live in peace with other people,may it be in the phillipines,russia, usa,britain,syria,nigeria,sudan etc?What makes them think they have a monopoly of violence?lf boko haram dont want to take their kids to school they can do so but why kill other people’s kids for going to school?The boko haram leader should volunteer as a sucide bomber together with his kids and stop using other peoples kids!Does’nt he want to go to paradise?Hypocrites.

Ahmed

Taiwo, i’m still surprised that you dont believe that boko haram is fulfilling the instruction of allah. I have quoted verses to you from the quran to support this. Maybe your own kind of islam is different or you have another quran that i dont know about.

Then, if i may ask you – does the quran allow violence being committed by muslim and under what circumstances is the violence allowed?

kingsley ndu

yoUr HeAd is eMpty biOla to call somebody an idiot, BOko hAraM are not children but, adult knowing good and bad, strong members of mulism. the read Quran day and night. OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY TRUE GOD is coming very soon to separate the righteous from the unrighteous. muslims encourage alots of bad things in this world, terrorist, like you kill people you go to there heaven, which OUR LORD JESUS said we should not shade blood. marry more than one wife, is committing evil. am sorry, just that our president is too weak, if i can control that office 90 days, BokO HaRam, will be history.

Suleiman Ishiaku

Your disregard for other people religion portrayed you as dullard, an ignorant fellow who claims to know all but knows nothing.

nerry Osuka-Raymonds

please forgive him. People should not be judged by their religion or where they come from. shouldn’t we all be working towards a better Nigeria even by our comments?

Steve

This is blasphemous!!! Be rest assured that the consequences of your blasphemy soon. When the consequences come, it will be in the open and not on the internet and everybody will see it!!!

Israel

ALLAH cannot do nothing, my Dog and Pig will tear Allah into pieces and if you dare, I will send bush pig to eat your bone now or I will inject my Dog, it will jump your fence and tear you and Allah together.

king john

ISRAEL YOU ARE TOO MUCH ,,RIDE ON,,

ndu

please Isreal i need that your bull dog, the pig and the bush pig,if you have Cobra please join it, i will send altogether to the muslims to finish them so that we can have peace in this your country. second, send it to the wicked and demonic part PDP to finish them.

Israel

Thank you for this wise and intelligent narration of the wickedness of Muslims, Muhammad, Qurarn, Haddith and all these blood suckers beings serving a dead and totally weak god that requires his creatures to defend him. SHEKAU ride on and I love you for RUBBISHING GEJ AND THAT QUOTA SAN- TURAKI TANIMU and the good for nothing Anthony Sani together with Arewa, I like you for standing for what you belief; GEJ and his co -travelers should continue in their cluelessness and worthless amnesty combine with the wickedness against Christians thinking that will make him and PDP to win 2015 election, they are all dreamers, as I belief they will have nothing like Nigeria to lead because Muslims would have succeeded in breaking Nigeria into various nations. GEJ like deception and falsehood so Tanimu ride on deceiving with your Islamic agenda.

john muketha

Muslims will always be a problem coz they insist on calling others infidells.lslam is the greatest tragedy in history andthat is a fact.Look at pakistan,lran,lraq etc.l have free advise for peace loving Nigerians,let the north secede and they establish sharia law.

Angryman

Deamalgamation !

Ajayi olupona

Even a primary school pupil knew that it was all lies fabricated by the federal government to merely mock the aleady bereaved Nigerian families ! The same day boko haram killed almost 50 secoundary school students in Yobe was the same day a wicked federal government broadcasted a false ceasefire !

doma

Shehu sani the boko haram sympathizer that sees no wrong in boko haram killing innocent Nigerians has not updated his Facebook page for the past two days.

Jesus said in Mathew 10:34 says: Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

Ahmed

You only quoted a verse of the Bible without saying what it means and its relevance to this forum. I think you should explain the reason for quoting this verse. I really wish to know.

Magic

If GEJ can’t do this alone,he should call on the international community for help to save people’s live…plz lets forget about 2015 for now..

interested citizen

leave them in their jungle. I feel Nigeria should be divided into 2.North and south..leave these barbarians to kill themselves.

john muketha

lndeed brother,l am also challenging Shekau to come and kill me if he is man enough.

interested citizen

Advice for the Nigeria military..Hot them as hard as you can,especially now that they are fasting..eliminate them,extinguish them,push them deep down into the bottomless pit (graves)..they are lower than animals.

interested citizen

Advice for the Nigeria military..Hunt them in every part of the north, hit them as hard as you can,especially now that they are fasting..eliminate them,extinguish them,push them deep down into the bottomless pit (graves)..they are lower than animals.

igboham

Now – Boko Haram has asked your government to allow them establish an Islamic State(flag) in their geographical areas. They decided to kill innocent people mostly my people as usual. Now you want your country do commit another ethnic cleansing of these people.
Would it not be easier to allow them have their State instead of the cycle of bloodshed? If I am correct in my assumption that you are a christian, then you may want to adopt the old Igbo adage of – Live and let Live

Angryman

Sorry, the Sharia they are agitating for is not for their geographical areas only, but the whole nation
They want to islamize Nigeria by force

ajwales

JTF please find all of them and kill them. Rubbish

Dipp

Its sad how alot of you guys here think….no wait most of you dont think you just talk

Legend

The paradox called Nigeria. How can a man who has a bounty of million of dollars and wanted by the US be negotiating cease fire? Shekau is a psychopathic, fugitive criminal, he lives by the sword and would certainly die by it.
I watched a wild life programme and saw the way the baboons organised themselves and lived peacefully in their community. I then came to the conclusion, that even Baboon’s are more sophisticated than boko haram and it’s supporters, for the baboon’s exhibited good societal organisational skills and compassion for each other.

johny m

Boko haram should be allowed to form an lslamic state in the north and the border has to have a buffer zone to prevent millions from fleeing to the south like thhe berlin wall.

Power Of Gospel Temple

Isaiah 9:6-7 & 41:12 discipline is a better instrument to state vandalizers and wrong doers with Northern Ex- political leaders an alliance curse of Boko haram and other groups they use to furthering their amoral politics. It is indeed to let Sheku hiding in Military base in Chad that God is calling him for a special mission through this ministry for behest rebuilding since decades of decrepit that will grace all or certainly one day will fall in the hands of this insuperable God who has in stock for Nigeria. To claim our sovereignty and bloodiest moment in our Land they Boko Haram can confess their number that were killed from power above nonetheless this God of Moses will resurgent more until isles believes he is the creator and possess all power. I once again advice and pass my message to our community members to abstain from nefarious activities and looking unto for a perfect salvation because of the massive predicted rapture and would never be killed by enemies who fights for wielding corrupt minds. Galatians 5:19-26.

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deri

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Akin

Someone should tell Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau to stop tarnishing the Islamic religion in the process of fighting for Allah (God). God is not a handicap that he cannot avenge (fight) for himself (God is a consumable fire) and he should stop misleading his followers that killing the fellow human being in the name of Allah is a direct ticket to heaven, It is by fulfilling your relationship with God by obeying and follow His words. The word of God says love your neighbour as you love yourself not killing your neighbour because of your Intense or passionate dislike in them.

Angryman

Sorry , which word of God are you referring to
It appears you have no idea what is in their book

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Angryman

Who is the liar here – Presidential Committee or Boko Haram
And who have they been negotiating with
This shows the futility of the amnesty idea
I have been saying it that it is only the muslim umma that can bring a quick end to this Boko Haram insurgency
They know them
They eat ,sleep and pray with them
But when they tell you that no amount of force can stop Boko Haram , they are simply saying that they will not cooperate
All their other actions and inactions are simply to milk the cow of Boko Haram to their advantage
GEJ doesn’t seem to realize this

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